Hi Siglo,
There's also ancient Egyptian wal-paintings that show that some of the
Libyans and Syrians and even some of the Egyptians were fair haired, fair
skinned and light eyes.
And these were non-Indo-European speakers. Also the Hittites were
Indo-European and Egyptian paintings show them to have been dark-haired
and dark-skinned, not much different then other ancient Middle Eastern
peoples. Although I think you are right in that a good portion of
Indo-European speaking groups were fair. Yet of course, all humanity
derives from a common gene pool.
The Medes and Persians seem to have been a little more on the dark side,
though the Alans and I think maybe the Sarmatians were mentioned as being
blond. There's a reference by Tacitus to one German tribe having the
"repulsive appearance of the Sarmatians" due to intermarriage with them.
I'm not sure exacactly what he meant by this.
-Michael
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:57:56 -0000 "siglo_20th_century"
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siglo_20th_century@...> writes:
> Notice, however that I'm not trying to push the theory that IE's
> where blond/blue eyed just because classical Greeks+Latins may have
> been so. For all we know their ancestors along with the Germans and
> Celts and Slavs may have been a fair complexion people adopting the
> language of a darker complexion people that created IE language.
> In fact isn't that a theory to explain the Germanic high percentage
> of non IE roots and odd accent and grammar?.
> But also notice that the medo-persians mentioned in the Avesta a
> mythological first king called Yima or Jima who expanded the IE
> speaking tribes (Iranians) into Asia, describing him as blond.
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